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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced that the ActivityPub decentralized social networking protocol is now one of its official recommendations. It is based on the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format and “provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content,” according to the press release. With ActivityPub, software developers can build social network offerings into their systems. “Adding ActivityPub support allows interoperable social networking between applications with entirely different codebases.”